However, attaching wood to other materials like metal or plastic can ... The molten plastic infiltrates pores in the wood, ...

It is a clever catalytic technique using metal nanoparticles to ... more than a million tonnes of new plastic are created worldwide, every day. The strong bonds that link together the long chains ...

Plastics are usually more difficult to bond with adhesives than are metal substrates. Plastic surfaces can be unstable and thermodynamically incompatible with the adhesive. The actual bonding surface ...